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Jobs Fall, Stocks Stumble. Next Up? It's Earnings Time.

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Tom Lauricella

April 7, 2013

A dismal jobs report sent the stock market tumbling on Friday, but the raging bulls came back before the close to turn a rout into a modest down day.

The U.S. economy added just 88,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported. That fell far short of the 200,000 gain economists had forecast. The unexpectedly weak reading sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 170 points in morning trading, but it took most of that...

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